Rede de Cooperação Amazônica (RCA)
Organization name
Rede de Cooperação Amazônica (RCA)
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Network
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Current focus/area
Indigenous knowledge and traditions Indigenous rights Territorial management Land use Forests Environmental protection Livelihood improvement Governance
Description/notes
The RCA’s mission is to promote cooperation and the exchange of knowledge, experiences and capacities among its member indigenous and indigenist organisations, seeking to strengthen the autonomy and increase the sustainability and welfare of indigenous peoples in Brazil.
The RCA’s main aim is to promote the coordination and political activism of these organisations on strategic themes related to sustainability and local governance in indigenous lands; public recognition of the fundamental role that indigenous peoples perform in forest conservation; strengthening of indigenous and indigenist organisations in defence of indigenous interests and rights in Amazonia; and improvement of indigenist and environmentalist public policies.
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Signatory of the Peoples’ Summit: Climate Rights and Human Survival
Indigenous rights Territorial management Land use Forests Environmental protection Livelihood improvement
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